The Egyptian Revival : Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West

ISBN-13: 9780415361194 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 572 str.

James Stevens Curl

Opis

Professor Curl's survey is an account of the ways in which artists, and especially architects, have brought Egyptian forms and images into the public eye.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Egypt and Europe; Chapter 2 Some Manifestations of Egyptianisms from the Time of Trajan to the Early Renaissance Period; Chapter 3 Further Manifestations with Egyptian Connotations in Europe from the Renaissance to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 4 Egyptian Elements in Eighteenth-Century Europe to the Time of Piranesi; Chapter 5 The Egyptian Revival from the Time of Piranesi until the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt; Chapter 6 The Egyptian Revival after the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt; Chapter 7 Applications of the Egyptian Style; Chapter 8 The Egyptian Revival in Funerary Architecture; Chapter 9 Aspects of the Egyptian Revival in the Later Part of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 10 The Egyptian Revival in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 11 A Postscript;

O autorze

Professor Emeritus James Stevens Curl, has held Chairs in Architectural History at The Queen's University of Belfast and The School of Architecture, De Montfort University, Leicester. His many book include The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2006), Classical Architecture (1992, 2002), and The Victorian Celebration of Death (2000, 2004).